A very good+ copy, clean and crisp, in a very good+ price-clipped dust jacket with a darkened spine. First edition. Cloth. 8vo. xx, 366 pp. Illus. with b/w photos.

The Bloody Bozeman: The Perilous Trail to Montana's Gold

History

Johnson, Dorothy M.

Americas

McGraw=Hill

Includes: "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" and "A Man Called Horse"

Indian Country

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Ballantine

Hanging Tree

Ballantine Books

The Hanging Tree [Nov 12, 1973] Johnson, Dorothy M. …

The Hanging Tree

Short Stories & Anthologies

A collection of Montana Frontier stories worthy of the most discerning of readers.

The title story, The Hanging Tree, is based on a true episode in Montanaâs gold-mining past. Three amazing characters meet: the cynical Doc Frail; the boy robber named Rune, whom Doc saves and enslaves; and Elizabeth, the young easterner who survives an Indian assault and comes under the care of Doc and Rune. In the gold-mining camp of Skull Creek Elizabeth becomes the mysterious Lucky Lady. A vigorous, psychological western, The Hanging Tree was made into a movie starring Gary Cooper.Â The stories in this book consolidate Dorothy M. Johnsonâs reputation for authenticity and artistic integrity. âLost Sisterâ is based on the recapture of Cynthia Ann Parker, a white woman abducted by the Comanche Indians. âThe Man Who Knew the Buckskin Kidâ tells of two married people and an outlaw who share a secret. Fully as arresting are âThe Last Boast,â âJournal of Adventure,â âI Woke Up Wicked,â âThe Gift by the Wagon,â âA Time for Greatness,â âThe Story of Charley,â and âBlanket Squaw.â

Contemporary

Twenty-two biographical sketches of the frontier's most notorious badmen. Includes Billy the Kid, Butch Cassidy, Cole Younger, Doc Holliday, and others.

Western Badmen

Man Called Horse (Originally: Indian Country)

The title story, The Hanging Tree, is based on a true episode in Montana’s gold-mining past. Three amazing characters meet: the cynical Doc Frail; the boy robber named Rune, whom Doc saves and enslaves; and Elizabeth, the young easterner who survives an Indian assault and comes under the care of Doc and Rune. In the gold-mining camp of Skull Creek Elizabeth becomes the mysterious Lucky Lady. A vigorous, psychological western, The Hanging Tree was made into a movie starring Gary Cooper. The stories in this book consolidate Dorothy M. Johnson’s reputation for authenticity and artistic integrity. “Lost Sister” is based on the recapture of Cynthia Ann Parker, a white woman abducted by the Comanche Indians. “The Man Who Knew the Buckskin Kid” tells of two married people and an outlaw who share a secret. Fully as arresting are “The Last Boast,” “Journal of Adventure,” “I Woke Up Wicked,” “The Gift by the Wagon,” “A Time for Greatness,” “The Story of Charley,” and “Blanket Squaw.”

Hanging Tree & Othr ST

A fictionalized account, as seen through the eyes of a woman known as Whirlwind, of life with the Oglala Sioux from 1820 through the aftermath of the victory at the Little Bighorn in 1877.

Buffalo Woman

Dodd, Mead

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The Bloody Bozeman: The Perilous Trail to Montana's Gold

Indian Country

Hanging Tree

The Hanging Tree

The Hanging Tree

The Hanging Tree

Western Badmen

Man Called Horse (Originally: Indian Country)

Hanging Tree & Othr ST

Buffalo Woman